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Seychelles


 * __ Introduction: __** The country Seychelles is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, northeast of Madagascar. The country consists of 115 small islands with a total land area of 455 sq km. In a struggle between France and Great Britain for the islands in 1814 they gave up to the latter. Their independence came in 1976.


 * __ Population: __** It has a population of 90,024. Last calculated in July 0f 2012. Seychelles is said to have the smallest population of any African state. According to the UN, the annual population rate of change for years 2005-2010 was expected to be 1.0%; but the government viewed this as too high. Because of this, a National Population Policy contained programs to limit population growth. And ever since the population has increased in very small amounts. 50% of the population live in urban areas, urban areas are growing at annual rate of 1.24%.


 * __ Birth Rate: __** 15.1 births/1,000 population. Seychelles is considered to have a high birth rate. It is low compared to other countries in Africa because women have reported to using some sort of contraception.


 * __ Death Rate: __** 6.9 deaths/1,000 population. Death rates are essentially low because of the availability of free medical services to all segments of society and the healthy climate and living condition.


 * __ Net migration rate: __** 1.02 migrant(s) /1,000 population. This is considered a high migration rate. High levels of migration rate caused problems such as increasing unemployment and potential ethnic strife, which means whether people are coming in the country and how much people came in. There was also a reduction in labor force.


 * __ Infant mortality rate: __** Seychelles has a total infant mortality rate of 11.35 deaths/1,000 live births. Their low infant mortality rate is because 90% of protein in their diet comes from fish, rice, lentils, and fruits. This gives the families a more nutritious diet. Despite of this there are several health problems, especially in children. These problems result from limited education, poverty, unbalanced diets, poor housing, and dirty water.


 * __ Population growth rate: __** 0.922%. Limited natural resources and scarce land forces the government of Seychelles to limit the inflow of immigrants and to control population growth. Due to this, the population growth rate is very low.


 * __ Life expectancy: __** Life expectancy of men is 69.14 years, and women is 78.54 years. The total population life expectancy is 73.77 years. Most men and women living in Seychelles expected to live only 50 or 60 years, but they have gained up 15 extra years. They have a high life expectancy because they are healthy. The number of doctors & nurses is even higher than that of several emerging European countries.

__**Doubling time:**__ It would take 75.9 years for the population of Seychelles to double it's population. It would take a lot of time for it double because of it's very small population. Compared with Honduras it would take Honduras 38.9 years to double it's own population. Meaning that if it takes less years for Honduras to double, then that means that Honduras has a larger population than Seychelles.

Seychelles is on stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model. At this stage the death is low but the birth rate remains high. Death rates fall because of medical breakthroughs. On the other hand birth rates remain high, because of religious or cultural purposes and people are still not educated to using contraception. Seychelles is considered to be a More Economically Developed Country (MEDC) because of it's high literacy rate.

**__Population Issues:__** The birth rate has declined by one-third from 32/1,000. This is lower than most African & Asian countries. One-Third of women at reproductive age were reported to using some form of contraception which is considered to be high compared with other African and Asian countries. Limited natural resources and scarce land forces the government to limit how much immigrant people are in the country. This is used to control growth. Threats to health include intestinal parasites such as tapeworm and hookworm.

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BY: ISABELLA HERRERA